Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1914 — AROUND THE CAMP FIRE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AROUND THE CAMP FIRE

TAKES"#?' BUZZARD’S ROOST - ..... i Instead of Company D of the 113th, It Was Qompany D of the 115th Who Were Captured. 1 I saw in the issue of December 12, 1912, a communication from Comrade N. P. Julian, .company D, One Hundred and Tbirteepth llHn6is, _ St. Cloud, Fla., to Mr. Wash M. Ives: Fourth Florida, Lake City. Fla. Instead of company D of the One Hundred and Thirteenth it was company D of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Illinois, commanded by Captain Hymer, who were all captured. I was one of that regiment, with headquarters at Tuunel Hill, but my company and company H were stationed north of Tunnel Hill at the two blockhouses located at bridges at the crossing of East Chickamauga creek. We could plainly hear the cannonading at Buzzard’s Roost Garp blockhouse. The One Hundred and Fifteenth belonged to the Fourth corps, and was commanded by Gordon Granger until after the battle of Chickamauga. After that our corps was organized and put under the command of General Howard, who was in command of the corps until the advance on Atlanta in May, writes T. J. Chastian of Coffeeville, Kan., in the Nation--411. Tribune. We’moved out of our quarters at Blue Springs, Tenn., to Red Clay, on the cut-off between Cleveland and Dalton, and halted to get together from there. When all was ready we moved on to Tunnel Hill on the west side of Buzzard Roost mountain, and there at Tunnel Hill we struck Forrest’s cavalry, but they did us no harm, but we could riot get through the gap, as it had been strongly fortified. After trying) to caip-y the place by storm and failing to do so, we concluded to try to flank Johnston by moving on Resaca, which we did by order of General Sherman; The Second corps took up the march for Snake Creek Gap, on the west side of Taylor’s Ridge, to hide their movements, and were not noticed until they had possession of the gap. This movement caused Johnston to fall back or be cut off from railroad connections, and if the Second corps (commanded by Logan and McPherson) had taken possession it would have been a "hot time In the old town” for Johnston. But he took the hint and moved out. In the move we captured quite, a number of prisoners, who had to be guarded, and our regiment was detailed to do that work and patrol the town. The army there passed on to more glorious fields, Rome, • Good Hope Church, Kenosaw mountain, Marietta, Peach Tree creek, Atlanta, Lovejoy station, etc. All this while my regiment was at Resaca (that point being for a long time our base of supplies), doing guard duty, to our extreme disgust. No demonstration was made to follow the army farther. After everything In the commissary line had been moved forward we were ordered south to Adairville, where we stayed a few days, then back to Resaca, then back to Adairville. There we stayed until the last train going north came alojlig, and we got on and went back to Resaca again. At this time Hood had made his famous left flank movement on Sherman’s army and was coming north. About this time we were ordered to Tufinel Hill to guard three blockhouses, one at Buzzard’s Roost Gap/ company D, One .Hundred and. Fifteenth, A and H, north four miles between the hill and Ringgold. I belonged to company A. We stayed at the blockhouse until after JHo6d had captured Colonel Johnston and his colored troops at Dalton and company D at the gap. Then, knowing we could not contend with him, we went to Chattanooga, to be sent back to the blockhouse the next day. Hood in the meantime had gone west across the mountains via Villanow to Gadsen, Ala.